All the Queen's Horses and All the Queen's Men

by Chase Baldewyn

All the Queen's Horses and All the Queen's Men is the first book in a trilogy of political novels by Chase Baldewyn.  Written before Trump's campaign and election, the trilogy has characters, stories and dialog that provide unique insight as to how and why Donald Trump would be elected.  The trilogy is based on ethnographic research conducted over a decade on billionaire plutocratic families in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  The second novel in the trilogy, False Faith and Equestrian Games, exposes the link between ISIS and the Alt-Right.
All the Queen's Horses and All the Queen's Men reveals how and why plutocrat billionaires deceive the public and value loyalty over competence as Donald Trump seemingly does, and how plutocrats have worked to eliminate the middle class through deceptive egalitarianism and philanthropy while concurrently disparaging the need for excellence outside of their small peer group of billionaire businessmen.  The novel's protagonist is a plutocrat billionaire, Rolf Lambert, whose deceptive populism is revealed as actual elitism when advising his granddaughter, Berkeley, to model herself after British royalty for which Berkeley pays a heavy price at story's end.

266 pages, Paperback

Published April 26, 2015